Why are you reworking Velkoz instead of Annie?

Archenz·1/22/2016, 10:11:02 PM·6 votes·808 views

Ive played for quite some time now and ive never felt outplayed by a soraka or annie, only cheated.

Annie is the definition of unhealthy. High unavoidable damage, because you cant dodge any spell in her entire kit because they are instacast. Even if you flash out of w and r before the animation goes completely out, much like cho gath silence or old Darius apprehend, you will be stunned and then promptly killed. Even rengar has more counterplay, because you can just zonyas while he is in mid air.

She has an easy lane phase which lets her scale without a hitch, her q refunds mana, and if you take dorens and last hit correctly with q, you will actually be gaining mana on each q last hit. Her w is like cho silence and old darius e, it doesnt matter what you do. You will get hit by it, if you are in the cone when she presses the button. The only way to juke this is for the annie player to juke herself and aim it HORRIBLY or for you to zonyas and then she uses her spells which any decent annie player will never do.

Her R is a short range aoe stun nuke, that turns into a stronger version of sunfire for a short time.

TL;DR Rework annie, shes not very healthy. Keep her a simple champion, but there is no reason to keep her how she is.

8 Comments

Kaioko1/22/2016, 10:19:50 PM5 votes

She's the beginner mage and as such she serves that purpose and will remain that way. She can't make huge plays other than flash tibbers but unlike other play making champs her damage is pretty much guaranteed to hit.

The Bearded Bard1/22/2016, 10:13:45 PM1 votes

Annie, while very annoying to play against and very boring to play serves an important purpose. She's one of the few champions that completely and easily stops all of the mobile shenanigans of Ahri Ekko Kassadin Katarina Leblanc Yasuo Zed and their ilk.

A necessary evil.

Quepha1/22/2016, 10:24:46 PM1 votes

W and R are not instacast. There is a brief cast animation that is enough for mobile champs to stomp her.

Nivloc1/22/2016, 10:52:10 PM1 votes

I'd keep tibbers and passive, but her Q, W, and E are all open to changes